Critics condemn 'horrifically heavy-handed' policies.

Ukip has been accused of “full throttled Islamophobia” over its new “integration agenda” that includes a pledge to ban the Muslim face veil.

The agenda also calls for girls at risk of female genital mutilation to undergo annual medical checks and grooming to be made a hate crime if the victim and perpetrator are different races - a reference to the Rotherham grooming scandal that energised the Far Right since it was exposed.

She added: “Now that the referendum has passed, Nuttall’s party is desperately scrabbling around for relevance and seem to have settled upon attacks on Muslims and fringe far-right politics as their new home.”

Lynne Featherstone, former Lib Dem and Home Office minister who campaigned against GFM, said Ukip was trying to “out do” Far Right French National Front leader Marine Le Pen with policies that are “insensitive and frankly outrageous”.

She said: “Ukip’s approach is horrifically heavy-handed and will alienate the very communities we are trying to reach out to.

“We should be training our teachers and other providers such as community experts to identify those at risk and teaching children themselves that FGM is wrong and to come forward if they fear for themselves or a friend.